Mustafa, my man! You and your pecs are all over all my pixel-producing products. You and your client, Old Spice, and your agency buddies at Wieden + Kennedy have grasped the online golden ring-created yet another in a long and continuing line of viral videos full of sound and fury that signifies...not nothing, of course, since we're all talking about it. And for six months every other goddamn product sold to men is going to be accompanied by a magnificently muscled, superbly scented half-naked…
Updated 2 days agoIn Lars von Trier's excellent documentary The Five Obstructions (2003), von Trier challenges his mentor and veteran filmmaker Jorgen Leth to remake Leth's own highly-regarded short film, "The Perfect Human" (1967), five different times. Acting as a creative trickster, von Trier requires that Leth be subject to a different set of substantial limitations on each of the five remakes. Two themes relevant to the lives of creative professionals are explored within this setup: creativity through li…
Updated 16 days ago"Touching Stories" is a four-film experiment in short interactive filmmaking for the iPad, which got attention at this year's Cannes Lions festival. Tool of North America had five directors working in collaboration with Domani Studios to make the project, now available on iTunes. One of the shorts is shot in first-person. "You get to dial a pay phone, retrieve keys from a woman lounging in a pool, even shake the iPad back and forth as you're running in order to put some serious distance between…
Updated 27 days agoToday, the book "Ancestor" by Scott Sigler is available in stores from Crown Publishing. But that's not enough. This author, a New York Times best-seller and pioneer of the podcast novel, is always on his toes for reaching new audiences, regardless of what publicity his publisher garners. Pre-sales and first-week sales add to his count for climbing up the NYT best-seller charts, where moving up one rung to the next means quite a lot. The "Ancestor" blitz began months ago by building up anticipa…
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